Secret memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, reveal the origins of how the court moved away from careful, time-tested procedures and toward “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. Here are key excerpts from the memos.
Terrifying numbers in latest annual survey of federal workers from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social.
For example, DoD workers' trust in Hegseth is in the toilet.
Only 11.5% of Army employees say their dept's political leaders "maintain high levels of integrity." Similar numbers for Navy, Air Force
Deep, well sourced, moving, and enraging story from the NYT
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Agreed! At MSFT, I tried to convince certain HPC audiences to stop trying to deploy the latest and greatest GPUs. Pick up previous-gen GPUs after AI has already paid down their depreciation.
HPC is naturally doing this anyway due to supply; GH200 for HPC deployed concurrently w/ GB200 for AI.
Watch this, it's astonishing.
3.5 years after a ceasefire ended a brutal Ethiopian civil war that killed hundreds of thousands in two years...Ethiopian forces and Tigrayan rebels clashed on Thursday, marking the most serious fighting since the war ended.
Ethiopian Airlines has suspended all flights to Tigray.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
The use of an image of Trump on the 2026 pass — rather than the usual picture of nature — has sparked a backlash, sticker protests, and a lawsuit from a conservation group.
Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean.
Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone."
Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)
Ryan Grim (X: @ryangrim): "This is an important piece and I’m glad it’s getting read. Morality — the idea of right v wrong — does actually matter. It is the thing that holds nations and peoples together. Gleefully celebrating your ability to seize the resources of a weaker nation is on the bad side of the ledger. It’s wrong. And it will ruin the U.S. on the not so long term. And deservedly so." Replying to Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand, https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2008706580737343956?s=20): "Venezuela killed the US. Or rather, it revealed it was already dead. In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: the U.S. government has intervened to change governments in Latin America a total of 41 times (https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-states-interventions/). What is unprecedented however is the brazenness, the unabashedly predatory nature of the intervention. Trump is not pretending this is about anything else than resource extraction. He explicitly stated "we're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground" and that this wealth would “go to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country." (https://npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s1-104346/trump-venezuela-maduro-press-conference). Stunningly, the US isn’t even insisting on regime change. They’re quite happy for the Chavista government to stay in place under acting president Delcy Rodríguez as long as she “does what we want,” (said Trump: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/04/politics/us-running-venezuela-trump-administration), vowing to bomb the country again if she didn’t. In other words, there is absolutely zero pretense there: submission to the U.S.’s will is the only variable that matters. Never before in its entire history has the U.S. been so nakedly… bad. This might sound almost trivial. “So what if they admit they’re bad, at least they’re not hypocritical about it anymo…
This is an important piece and I’m glad it’s getting read. Morality — the idea of right v wrong — does actually matter. It is the thing that holds nations and peoples together.
Gleefully celebrating your ability to seize the resources of a weaker nation is on...
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top risks 2026 is officially out
after 28 years of analyzing geopolitical risks
this year is the tipping point:
As @meron.bsky.social posted, Eritrean asylum seekers set to be deported by ICE are saying they'd rather commit suicide than face the monstrous regime. This happened before when Habtom committed suicide in Canada after his asylum was denied. 💔
www.cbc.ca/andthewinner....
Detailed investigation into DOGE claims in the @nytimes.com.
Savings? Not really.
"On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up."
Costs? Enduring impacts on local communities, innovation, health, research, and soft power/influence.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Which is the reason for my asking all the questions. How do you get from here to there?
In 2020 it was hard. In a far more vertically integrated 2026 system , with multi 100 billion dollar companies, they are not going to roll over
I'm all for UHC, but a plan needs to be set in reality
Fascinating story from VA: the Confederacy on trial, with a microcosm of the national dynamic that brought us here: the George Floyd protests and racial reckoning, and the furious backlash. Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Donald Trump has played a part. Since returning to office, he has denounced certain charities as wasteful and politicised—but that is far from the whole story
With initiatives like the AmSC, Genesis, and the lab's NG-HPCC, it's obvious that the "HPC center of the future" is very cloud-like. What gives me pause is whether staffing and mindset are ready for a focus on infrastructure innovation. I think I saw this coming. 🙃 www.authorea.com/users/872044...
"China Imports No U.S. Soybeans for Third Month; Argentine Arrivals Up 634%" 🤔 share.google/yxJk9FytGMTY...
Very last minute, but I'm giving a talk online tomorrow (Thurs Dec 18) about my analysis of over 85K model training checkpoints and implications for system design. Punchline is "less bandwidth makes training go faster."
Registration required: www.vastdata.com/events/vast-...
#AI #storage
The Trump administration’s funding cuts and immigration policies are causing a brain drain, with a 32% increase in Americans seeking work abroad and a decline in foreign applications
The buzziest private companies are being sold to a select few as the universe of stocks everyone else can invest in shrinks rapidly.
DHS agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown.
A probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down because of the shift.
And efforts to combat human smuggling have languished.
MacKenzie Scott gave 15 donations to historically Black colleges and universities this year, adding up to more than $700 million, according to a list compiled by Marybeth Gasman, a professor at Rutgers and the executive director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.
The scope of dirty money (terrorists, criminals, sex predators) moving through crypto exchanges is dizzying. And as this article describes, Binance - the company at the heart of Trump's crypto corruption - continues to be one of the worst offenders.
Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
We're kicking off a blog series on OpenHPC, an open source ecosystem that makes HPC cluster deployment manageable. It's a compelling alternative to expensive commercial solutions, providing enterprise-grade stability without the licensing headaches.
Read Part 1: bit.ly/4hqtVxv
#HPC #RockyLinux
Too late. We were offering a metaphor for 1933-1934. It's now 1937 in these United States.
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
